""Fennel does not grow"", - this phrase should be heard not only from beginners gardeners. It would seem, fennel, this ""zavsegday"" on kitchen gardens and does not grow. And there is also it, and there are reasons for which it happens and which should be known.
Unpretentiousness of nature of fennel has made this culture of darling on kitchen garden. Nevertheless, seeds of fennel can partially ascend or not ascend at all. It is promoted by following basic reasons.
Sour soil
Fennel on the sour soil does not grow. Therefore at the raised zakislennost useful will be to bring ashes, lime slaked lime, dolomite powder in advance, since fall.
Heavy clay soils
Fennel darling will not punch the heavy soil. Seeds will just die or shoots will be minimum and weak. To receive fluffy greens, it is necessary to work with soil structure. Whenever possible to improve heavy soils, bringing in them fossils, manure, sand, peat, cut straw, not fresh sawdust. Crops of siderat also yield good result.
Illumination
Only on well lit sites, fennel will grow. In the shaded place of plant will grow pale, weak and without aroma.
Old seeds
Fresh-gathered seeds of fennel of the first class have viability at the level of 60%, the second - only 40%. And the field viability fennel keeps 2... 3 years. Buying seeds, the freshness can be determined on ""eye"", by aroma of the bought bag. The strong aroma speaks about fresh-gathered harvest of seeds.
Seal of seeds to the soil
Considering different structure of soils and crops of seeds has to be miscellaneous. Too small or deep landing will affect quality of shoots of fennel.
Crops in rows or randomly
At dense crops of dill seeds in narrow rows the seeds begin to press each other and to fight for survival. Fennel loves scope and crops in wide ranks or randomly will become the best option.
""Long-playing"" shoots
Fennel seeds tugovskhozhy. The radio oily cover covering seeds is barrier of fast viability. That seeds of fennel have quicker ascended, ret them in warm water, several times changing water. The first shoots at qualitative seeds appear through 7... 10 days. If not to ret seeds, then fennel begins to ascend two weeks later.
Power supply
Fennel loves natural food, namely - organic chemistry, humus. Only on the nutritious loosened soils it is possible to grow up fluffy greens. You should not apply mineral fertilizers. Fennel culture fast-growing, useful, vitamin and lishniya chemistry there is nothing at all. With weak growth it is better to feed up it extract from humates.